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Como Proust Pode Mudar Sua Vida - Alain de Botton
Como Proust Pode Mudar Sua Vida
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9788580570946
Publisher: INTRINSECA
Pages no: 256
Edition language: Portuguese
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it
2.0 A Strangely Claustrophobic Experience: “How Proust Can Change Your Life” by Alain de Botton
“To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.” Quote from one of Proust’s books, In “How Proust Can Change Your Life” by Alain de Botton “Even ...
Garden-of-Stars
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3.0 How Proust Can Change Your Life
There is a certain, unspoken list of writers and philosophers whose work is deemed a necessary read in academic circles, Proust being one of them. Luckily I was assigned to read this one for a French cultural studies course, glad to finally be able to learn more about what specifically makes Proust ...
shell pebble
shell pebble rated it
4.5 Folly & tenderness
With the gentlest and kindest mockery possible, de Botton makes a very strong case for celebrating and learning from the unlikeliest of teachers: Marcel Proust.In Shikasta Doris Lessing's extraterrestrial protagonist describes Proust as a great sociologist and anthropologist, which chimes with de Bo...
Books etc.
Books etc. rated it
3.0 How Proust Can Change Your Life
I've read Swann's Way thrice, that is, its first 3pages. Then I would decide that this was not the right time to read Proust. That if I want to give his writing some justice then I'll have to give it attention & time that I sorely lack. Because there's no way I can follow his writing in the time sti...
debnance
debnance rated it
3.0 How Proust Can Change Your Life
If you have considered reading this book, you are probably aware of who Proust is, but I honestly knew little about him before reading this book. I’ve been on a French author reading kick for, oh, five months or so, and I’ve had this book in my TBR for quite some time, so this was a must-read for me...
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